What Obama should do Tuesday

What President Obama should  do Tuesday:

1.       Paint Romney as a radical…not a moderate at all. Is the real Romney the one in the room behind closed doors in Florida or the one in the last debate.  The real Romney has now stood up.

Steve Rattner, writing in the New York Times today and appearing  on MSNBC Morning Joe a couple of days ago, presented an eye opening  analysis:  Mitt Romney’s budget proposal  is more radical than Paul Ryan’s.  He centers this around  Romney proposal to add $2 trillion to the Pentagon budget that was not even requested by the Pentagon.  In order to pay for it, Romney proposes to slash discretionary spending by 40%,  including cutting Medicaid 20-30% , school lunches and other safety net programs.  This draconian impact falls most harshly on both the young and the elderly. If the Ryan   budget was judged by the Catholic Church leaders as immoral, then where does that put Romney? Heartless and uncaring about the 47%.

Rattner: “Mr. Romney is calling for a huge increase in defense spending — roughly $2 trillion more over the next decade than Mr. Ryan wants to spend, which is only $400 billion above Mr. Obama’s budget — even though the military is not asking for such an increase. Such an increase would force giant reductions, about 40 percent, in everything that’s left.
“Everything else” isn’t some catchall of small items, like feeding Big Bird. We’re talking about a vast array of programs including civilian and military pensions, food stamps, unemployment and disability compensation, the earned income and child tax credits, family support and nutrition, K-12 education, transportation, public safety and disaster relief. And on and on. “

Include in  painting Romney as the radical,   Romney’s pledge to overturn  Roe v Wade and  defunding  Planned Parenthood.  It is still a crucial issue  for women and an unacceptable trade off for Romney’s questionable claim he can improve the economy better.

2.       Connect personally with the questioners and  show he, Obama,  is the one to trust that he will work on behalf of them and that the real Romney will not.   While we know what he wants to do with Medicaid and “everything else”, his $5 trillion tax gift…to those who itemize deductions  or depend on loopholes, is a pig in the poke left up to Congress to work it out. What? Those guys?. “ Preferring” not to cut middle class deductions for mortgages, charity, health care is no assurance, especially  when it is not “revenue neutral” and to make it so requires the middle class taking a hit or exploding the deficit.

3.       Counter  Romney’s  foreign policy by asserting he would most likely drag us into war 1) because of his bellicose position (Romney’s position that he would be a stronger leader is confusing  leadership with bellicosity)  2) his advisers  are the same ones who dragged us into Iraq…3) at the same time he is proposing to differ little from Obama on most issues , just carrying the same big stick, but speaking loudly.  If “hope is not a plan”, rhetoric is not a plan either .In fact, rhetoric can get us into trouble having to make good on threats or arming dangerous people in the middle of a civil war. 

4.       Remind voters that what Romney is proposing to do is to use the same philosophy and governance that got us into the mess and detail it briefly....the failure of trickle down, the Wall Street crash because of lax laws and lax regulators.

5.       Toot his horn and remind voters how far we have come from the disaster he was handed and what he has done in spite of a stonewalling Congress.   It is time for Obama to stop agreeing he has failed.  The statistics are there to back him up and he should use them.

The figures...from the time Pres. Obama was sworn in to today. Jobs are up by 325,000 and unemployment rate fell from 10 to 7.8%. S&P (best indicator of where your 401 K has gone ) up 81%, Manufacturing index is up 48%, Consumer confidence

 index up 86%, Us Drilling rigs in operation up 23%, wind and solar power up 116%, petroleum imports down -23%.

 Perhaps he should refer to the  12 million job creation as what will happen if he continues on course per Moody’s etc.. Funny that Romney says he will achieve the same with his 5 point plan. Romney is a rooster trying to claim credit for causing the sun to rise.

 Obama should say what he is going to do in the next four years as part of this segment…stay the course? Do more?  He has not yet been clear.